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Paul Andrew Williams’ Tribeca winner ‘Dragonfly’ acquired for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Film will play at Edinburgh this weekend.
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Baby Cow chief executive Sarah Monteith departs company
Development head Rupert Majendie has a reconfigured leadership role.
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Bafta tweaks eligibility, voting rules in key film categories for 2026
Key changes to outstanding British film and best documentary categories.
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2026 Bafta Film Awards dates provide extended windows for voting and viewing
For the first time since 2001, the Bafta Film Award nominations will be announced after the Oscar nominations.
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Cineworld pulls in 300,000 UK cinemagoers with family-film ticket scheme
The £1-per-ticket initiative is on track to pass 500,000 admissions by the end of the summer
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BFI, Film4’s high-budget shorts programme Future Takes greenlit for second iteration
EXCLUSIVE: Six films will be award between £60,000 and £90,000.
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UK scholar and filmmaker Laura Mulvey awarded BFI Fellowship
Mulvey wrote the seminal feminist essay ‘Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema’.
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Ghost dog horror ‘Good Boy’ acquired for UK-Ireland theatrical release
EXCLUSIVE: SXSW title will release on October 10.
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Black Bear, Universal, True Brit execs join speaker line-up for Screen Summit 2025
John Friedberg, Kezia Williams and Zygi Kamasa will participate in ‘The Big Picture’ panel.
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Prince Charles Cinema eyes second London venue
The cinema has put in a bid to take over and reopen what was the Stratford Picturehouse in east London.
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Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ begins filming in the UK for Netflix
Production was spotted in central London.
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Warner Bros ‘The Batman Part II’ gearing up for spring 2026 shoot in UK
The eagerly anticipated sequel starring Robert Pattinson finally has a shoot date.
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‘Weapons’ lands top of UK-Ireland box office ahead of ‘Freakier Friday’
Solid start for Trafalgar Releasing’s Eminem fandom documentary ‘Stans’.
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Netflix UK revenues hit £1.8bn but profit growth slows
Profit dipped year-on-year by around 20%.
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‘We Live In Time’, ‘The Salt Path’ lead UK independent titles at local box office 2025 halfway point
The overall market share for UK independent titles was down compared to January-June of 2024.
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UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Freakier Friday’, ‘Weapons’ begin cinema runs
Trafalgar Releasing is starting fandom documentary ‘Stans’.
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UK feature film production spend takes small dip in first half of 2025
High-end TV production spend, however, was up by 18%.
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‘The Deb’ star Charlotte MacInnes begins defamation proceedings against Rebel Wilson
Wilson has been put on notice for a defamation lawsuit by the star of Wilson’s directorial debut.
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See-Saw Films, Element, Monumental heads join Screen Summit’s trailblazing producers panel
The Summit, titled Building on the UK’s Global Success, will take place at the BFI Southbank on September 30.
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Francois Ozon’s Venice Competition title ‘The Stranger’ picked up for UK-Ireland
Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder and Pierre Lottin star in the adaptation of Albert Camus’ novel.